Tom Lane wrote:
There's a workable-looking design in the archives (pghackers probably) for maintaining overall table counts in a separate table, with each transaction adding one row of "delta" information just before it commits. I haven't seen anything else that looks remotely attractive.
It might be useful if there was a way to trap certain queries and rewrite/replace them. That way more complex queries could be transparently redirected to a summary table etc. I'm guessing that the overhead to check every query would quickly destroy any gains though.
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